Visionary Film: Circa 1967
Wednesday 5 September 2007
7pm, Free.
Films:
15/67: TV, Kurt Kren, Austria, 1967, 4 mins
ROOM (DOUBLE TAKE), Peter Gidal, UK, 1967, 10 mins
MARVO MOVIE, Jeff Keen, UK, 1967, 5 mins
FUSES, Carolee Schneemann, US, 1964-7, 25 mins
YES NO MAYBE MAYBE NOT, Malcolm Le Grice, UK, 1967, 8 mins, double-screen
RAZOR BLADES, Paul Sharits, US, 1967, 25 mins, double-screen
Wednesday 5 September 2007
7pm, Free.
Films:
15/67: TV, Kurt Kren, Austria, 1967, 4 mins
ROOM (DOUBLE TAKE), Peter Gidal, UK, 1967, 10 mins
MARVO MOVIE, Jeff Keen, UK, 1967, 5 mins
FUSES, Carolee Schneemann, US, 1964-7, 25 mins
YES NO MAYBE MAYBE NOT, Malcolm Le Grice, UK, 1967, 8 mins, double-screen
RAZOR BLADES, Paul Sharits, US, 1967, 25 mins, double-screen
For one night only this week (Wednesday 5 September 7-9pm) there is an opportunity to see an extraordinary selection of international avant-garde film from 1967 at Milton Keynes Gallery. This free event has been programmed to coincide with the Gallery’s summer exhibition (now in its final week), Circa 1967: Works from the Arts Council, marking the city’s 40th anniversary.
By 1967 the worldwide avant-garde film community was in dialogue, expanding the boundaries of cinema in new directions, with many artists turning their attention to the medium of film itself, investigating its inherent properties, and its physical and psychological affects on the senses. The screening at Milton Keynes Gallery will feature key films by UK artists Malcolm Le Grice, Jeff Keen and Peter Gidal, but will also take a wider look at the highly influential work of their European and American peers such as Kurt Kren, Paul Sharits and Carolee Schneemann.
In Carolee Schneeman’s Fuses, sequences of intimate lovemaking between the artist and her partner are energised by painting directly onto the film-strip. Kurt Kren’s activates the screen through reflexive and systematic repetitions of a gaze through a window in his film 15/67: TV. In Room (Double Take), Peter Gidal begins his rigorous interrogations into the formalist aspect of film. Marvo Movie is a rapid collage of images by UK Pop art originator Jeff Keen. The evening concludes with two double-screen works that expand the confines of the screen: In Yes No Maybe Maybe Not, Malcolm Le Grice meditates on the shifting tones and textures of water and smoke and in Razor Blades, Paul Sharits bombards the senses with contradictory and hypnotic image streams.
This film screening is curated for Milton Keynes Gallery by William Rose from no.w.here (www.nowhere-lab.org), the new centre for artist film production in London.
The event starts at 7pm, and will last approximately two hours, including a ten minute interval. (No booking required).
By 1967 the worldwide avant-garde film community was in dialogue, expanding the boundaries of cinema in new directions, with many artists turning their attention to the medium of film itself, investigating its inherent properties, and its physical and psychological affects on the senses. The screening at Milton Keynes Gallery will feature key films by UK artists Malcolm Le Grice, Jeff Keen and Peter Gidal, but will also take a wider look at the highly influential work of their European and American peers such as Kurt Kren, Paul Sharits and Carolee Schneemann.
In Carolee Schneeman’s Fuses, sequences of intimate lovemaking between the artist and her partner are energised by painting directly onto the film-strip. Kurt Kren’s activates the screen through reflexive and systematic repetitions of a gaze through a window in his film 15/67: TV. In Room (Double Take), Peter Gidal begins his rigorous interrogations into the formalist aspect of film. Marvo Movie is a rapid collage of images by UK Pop art originator Jeff Keen. The evening concludes with two double-screen works that expand the confines of the screen: In Yes No Maybe Maybe Not, Malcolm Le Grice meditates on the shifting tones and textures of water and smoke and in Razor Blades, Paul Sharits bombards the senses with contradictory and hypnotic image streams.
This film screening is curated for Milton Keynes Gallery by William Rose from no.w.here (www.nowhere-lab.org), the new centre for artist film production in London.
The event starts at 7pm, and will last approximately two hours, including a ten minute interval. (No booking required).